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No. Both words have different meanings. Ghettos were districts in towns where Jews were forced to live. The first of these were established in many European towns and cities in medieval times. By 1870 all ghettos in Western and Central Europe had been opened and Jews were allowed to live wherever they chose. (More recently the word 'ghetto' has been extended to old, run-down urban areas occupied by poor minority groups). When the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939 they re-established ghettos - that is, sealed off areas where Jews were forced to live. The Jews had some control over their own affairs but were entirely dependent on the Nazis for food, water and other essentials. The Nazis made sure that the food supply was grossly inadequate. The best known ghettos were in Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow and Lviv (Lemberg). Concentration camps, on the other hand, were forced labour camps run by the SS. In the extermination camps the prisoners were gassed.

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